Monday, June 16, 2014

Plato Not Playdoh...

Teaching Philosophy to Children? Absolutely!

"Children CAN do philosophy, but
they tend to struggle when they're on their own, or when there's just
two of them, because they lack the variety of responses that are
necessary to sustain a philosophical conversation. However, if you take
20 children...then they start to have the variety of responses that are
needed, and with a little bit of facilitation, they can also have the
right kinds of responses.

"...[Children] learn to have what Socrates
called the 'silent dialogue', this conversation that we have in our own
heads when we think things through."